2025 in association football deaths

This is a list of association football related deaths in 2025:

• January 1:
  • Jean-Louis Lalanne (70), French footballer (UA Cognac, Girondins de Bordeaux, Libourne).
  • Viktor Nastashevskyi (67), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, SKA Kyiv, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih) and assistant manager.
  • Noh Haeng-seok (36), South Korean footballer (Gwangju FC, Daegu FC, Busan IPark).
  • Igor Poznič (57), Yugoslav and Slovenian footballer (Maribor, Grazer AK, Mura, Slovenia).
• January 2:
  • Aldo Agroppi (80), Italian footballer (Torino, Perugia, Italy) and manager (Pescara, Pisa, Perugia, Fiorentina, Como).
  • Werner Leimgruber (90), Swiss footballer (FC Zürich, Switzerland).
  • Cristóbal Ortega (68), Mexican footballer (Club América, Mexico).
• January 3:
  • Zlatko Dupovac (72), Yugoslav and Bosnian footballer (Radnik Hadžići, Sarajevo, Borac Banja Luka, St. Gallen, Wettingen).
  • Ernesto Gianella (83), Argentine-born French footballer (OGC Nice, AS Béziers, Stade de Reims, AS Monaco, Nîmes, Pays d'Aix, Châteauroux).
  • Brian Usher (80), English footballer (Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).
  • Gilbert Van Binst (73), Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, Toulouse, Club Brugge, Belgium), assistant manager (Club Brugge), and manager.
• January 4:
  • Mathías Acuña (32), Uruguayan footballer (El Tanque Sisley, Fénix, Liverpool Montevideo, Montevideo Wanderers, AEL, Lamia, Boston River).
  • Franjo Džidić (85), Yugoslav and Bosnian footballer (Velež Mostar, Borac Čapljina), player-manager (Mladost Lištica), and manager (Borac Čapljina, Leotar, Velež Mostar, Šibenik, Široki Brijeg, Zrinjski Mostar).
  • Mohsen Habacha (82), Tunisian footballer (ES Sahel, Ajaccio, Tunisia).
  • Oleksandr Humenyuk (48), Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer (Boryspil, CSKA Kyiv, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Chornomorets Odesa, Volyn Lutsk, Metalist Kharkiv), goalkeeping coach (Vorskla Poltava, Bukovyna Chernivtsi), and manager (Dynamo Kyiv Academy, Bukovyna Chernivtsi, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
  • Yılmaz Urul (82), Turkish footballer (İstanbulspor, Fenerbahçe, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Turkey).
  • Víctor Manuel Zapata (39), Colombian footballer (Deportivo Cali, Talleres de Perico, Deportivo Pasto, Águilas Doradas, Atlético Bucaramanga, Alianza Atlético). Cousin of Colombian footballer William Zapata.
• January 5:
  • Gerd Achterberg (84), German footballer (Spandauer BC) and manager (Spandauer BC, BFC Südring, BFC Preussen, Tennis Borussia Berlin).
  • Siegfried Böhringer (84), German footballer (VfB Stuttgart Amateure, VfB Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kickers).
  • Bobby Matitahatiwen (65), Dutch futsal player (Netherlands).
  • Juan Manuel Villa (86), Spanish footballer (Plus Ultra, Real Sociedad, Real Zaragoza, Spain).
  • Freddy Zix (89), French footballer (Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Mutzig, France). Played at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• January 6:
  • Dušan Maravić (85), French-born Yugoslav and Serbian footballer (Spartak Subotica, Red Star Belgrade, Racing Paris, Deportivo Italia, Yugoslavia). Gold medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
• January 7:
  • Jesús María Arambarri (76), Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad, Deportivo Alavés).
• January 8:
  • Jorge Cáceres (77), Argentine-born Colombian footballer (San Martín de Tucumán, América de Cali, Atlético Bucaramanga, Deportivo Pereira, Colombia)
  • Fabio Cudicini (89), Italian footballer (Udinese, AS Roma, Brescia Calcio, AC Milan). Son of former Italian footballer Guglielmo Cudicini and father of former Italian footballer Carlo Cudicini.
• January 9:
  • Marius Ciugarin (75), Romanian footballer (Steaua București, FC Brașov, Sportul Studențesc București, Progresul București, Dordrecht, Makedonikos).
  • Alberto Onofre (77), Mexican footballer (Guadalajara, Mexico)
  • Franz-Josef Pauly (75), German footballer (1860 Munich, Hannover 96, Fortuna Köln).
• January 10:
  • Anatoli Pata (66), Soviet and Russian footballer (Mashuk Pyatigorsk, Rotor Volgograd, Dynamo Stavropol, Kuban Krasnodar, Dynamo Izobilny), assistant manager (Dynamo Stavropol), manager (Dynamo Stavropol), and scout (Dynamo Stavropol).
  • Nelson Silva Pacheco (80), Uruguayan-born Colombian footballer (Danubio, Liverpool, Sportivo Italiano, Tigre, Rosario Central, Atlético Nacional, Deportes Quindío, Cúcuta Deportivo, Atlético Junior, Deportivo Táchira, América de Cali, Colombia) and manager (Deportivo Táchira, Deportes Tolima).
• January 11:
  • Bobby Kennedy (87), Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock, Manchester City, Grimsby Town) and manager (Grimsby Town, Bradford City).
  • Roberto Oltramari (85), Italian footballer (SPAL, Ozo Mantova, Rimini, Foggia & Incedit, Modena, Del Duca Ascoli).
  • Tiny Ruys (67), Dutch footballer (NEC, Fortuna Sittard) and manager (United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, Fortuna Sittard, MVV, SV Meerssen, EVV Echt).
• January 12:
  • Giampiero Schiavo (85), Italian footballer (Marzotto Valdagno, Torino, Lecco).
• January 13:
  • Chris Barnard (77), English footballer (Southend United, Ipswich Town, Torquay United, Charlton Athletic).
  • Tony Book (90), English footballer (Bath City, Plymouth Argyle, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City).
  • Keith Griffith (77), Barbadian footballer (Barbados), manager (Barbados, Joe Public, US Virgin Islands), and technical director (Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, US Virgin Islands).
  • Rudolf Grosser (80), German footballer (Bayern Munich, BSC Young Boys, Bayern Munich Amateure).
  • Mykhaylo Stelmakh (58), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (Dynamo Irpin, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Karpaty Lviv, Vorskla Poltava, CSKA Kyiv), assistant manager (Arsenal Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Skala Stryi 1911), and manager (Kharkiv, Dinaz Vyshhorod).
  • Vicente Vega (69), Venezuelan footballer (Deportivo Táchira, Portuguesa, Deportivo Italia, Venezuela).
• January 14:
  • Pat Goggin (84), Irish footballer (Cork Hibernians, Tramore Athletic).
• January 15:
  • Alex Brash (69), Scottish footballer (Forfar Athletic, Raith Rovers, Brechin City).
  • Aldo Dorigo (90), Italian footballer (Triestina, Inter Milan, Alessandria).
  • Günter Klomhuß (65), East German footballer (1. FC Magdeburg, Chemie Böhlen, Motor Babelsberg).
• January 16:
  • Vasile Ardeleanu (50), Romanian footballer (FCM Bacău, CSM Focșani, FC Onești).
  • Uwe Beginski (59), German footballer (Hamburger SV, SV Darmstadt 98, VfL Osnabrück, KSV Hessen Kassel, Hamburger SV Amateure).
  • Harry Bild (88), Swedish footballer (IFK Norrköping, FC Zürich, Feyenoord, Östers IF, Sweden).
  • Sabah Bizi (78), Albanian footballer (Vllaznia, Partizani, Albania) and manager (Veleçiku, Vllaznia).
  • Domingo González (91), Spanish footballer (Las Palmas).
• January 17:
  • Denis Law (84), Scottish footballer (Huddersfield Town, Manchester City, Torino, Manchester United, Scotland). 1964 Ballon d'Or winner.
  • Kenny Wilson (78), Scottish footballer (St Johnstone, Dumbarton, Carlisle United, York City, Hamilton Academical).
• January 18:
  • Garry Brooke (64), English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, GAIS, Norwich City, Groningen, Wimbledon, Brentford).
  • Benny Guagliardi (87), Brazilian footballer (Rio Preto, Corinthians, Ferroviária, Independiente, Boca Juniors, Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata).
  • Nicolae Oaidă (91), Romanian footballer (Dinamo Brașov, Dinamo Bacău, Progresul București, Romania) and mannager (Libya, Al-Ahly Benghazi, Mureșul Deva, Progresul București, Tractorul Brașov, Jiul Petroșani, Autobuzul București, Hassania Agadir, Homenetmen Beirut).
• January 19:
  • Jimmy Calderwood (69), Scottish footballer (Birmingham City, Sparta Rotterdam, Willem II, Roda JC, Heracles Almelo) and manager (Willem II, NEC Nijmegen, Dunfermline Athletic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Ross County, Go Ahead Eagles, De Graafschap).
  • Joaquín Ramos Marcos (78), Spanish referee (Royal Spanish Football Federation, UEFA) and commentator.
• January 20:
  • Mimi El-Sherbini (86), Egyptian footballer (Al Ahly, United Arab Republic) and manager (Al-Nasr Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Played at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
• January 21:
  • Abdul Salam Al-Mukhaini (36), Omani footballer (Al-Orouba, Al-Raed, Dhofar Club, Oman).
  • Robert Choe (85), Malaysian footballer (Malacca FA, Malaya/Malaysia).
  • Toros Kibritjian (90), Syrian-born American soccer referee (United States Soccer Federation, CONCACAF, FIFA).
• January 22:
  • Juan Antonio Román (82), Spanish footballer (Granada, Sevilla, Real Valladolid) and manager (San Fernando, Poli Almería, Linense, Almería).
  • Kimmo Tauriainen (52), Finnish footballer (RoPS, Kontu, Atlantis, IK Start).
• January 23:
  • Eduardo de la Barra (65), Chilean footballer (Ñublense, Deportes Temuco, Avaí, Deportes Concepción, Naval), assistant manager (Naval), and manager (Deportes Concepción, Naval, Everton, Ñublense, Universidad de Concepción youth, Universidad de Concepción Femenino).
  • Anthony Basso (45), French footballer (Udinese, Viking, Heart of Midlothian).
  • Andreas Stamatiadis (89), Greek footballer (AEK Athens, Greece), assistant manager (AEK Athens), and manager (Rodos, Lamia, Anagennisi Karditsa, AEK Athens, Atromitos, Egaleo, Acharnaikos, Greece U21).
• January 24:
  • Lakhdar Bouyahi (79), Algerian footballer (NA Hussein Dey, Algeria).
  • Imke de Jong (92), Dutch footballer (SC Heerenveen).
  • Mimis Domazos (83), Greek footballer (Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, Greece).
  • David Gaskell (84), English footballer (Manchester United, Wigan Athletic, Wrexham).
  • Ellert Schram (85), Icelandic footballer (KR, Iceland), manager (KR), and politician. President of the KSÍ (1973–1989) and the ÍSÍ (1991–2006).
  • Eddy Wauters (91), Belgian footballer (Royal Antwerp, Belgium) and manager (Royal Antwerp).
• January 25:
  • Hugo Hernán Iter (75), Chilean footballer (Deportes Ovalle, Deportes La Serena).
• January 26:
  • Moses Effiong (65), Nigerian footballer (Sharks FC, Shooting Stars, Nigeria). Played at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
• January 27:
  • Chris Antonopoulos (56), American soccer player (FIU Panthers, California Kickers, Fort Lauderdale Strikers), beach soccer player (Florida Beach Soccer FC, United States), and beach soccer manager (Florida Beach Soccer FC).
  • Guy Delhasse (91), Belgian footballer (RFC Liège, Beringen, Belgium).
  • Werner Fritschi (91), German footballer (1. FC Kaiserslautern, SSV Reutlingen 05).
• January 28:
  • Leroy DeLeon (76), Trinidadian footballer (New York Generals, Washington Darts, Miami Gatos, Washington Diplomats, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Trinidad and Tobago) and indoor soccer player (Washington Darts, Washington Diplomats, Phoenix Inferno).
  • Eberhard Franz (89), East German footballer (BSG Motor Zwickau). Brother of former East German international footballer Reinhard Franz.
• January 29:
  • Benito Davanzati (88), Italian footballer (Siena, Perugia, SPAL, Pisa, Pontedera, Fortis Juventus, Figline).
  • Denis Devaux (86), French footballer (RC Besançon, Strasbourg, Stade de Reims, AC Ajaccio, UES Montmorillon, France) and manager (UES Montmorillon, Stade Poitevin PEPP).
  • Dinu Gheorghe (68), Romanian club president (Rapid București, FC Brașov, Astra Giurgiu, Dinamo București, ASA Târgu Mureș).
  • Barry Hartle (85), English footballer (Watford, Sheffield United, Carlisle United, Stockport County, Oldham Athletic, Macclesfield Town).
  • Gianfranco de Taddeo (96), Swiss footballer (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Young Boys, FC Basel, Neuchâtel Xamax, Old Boys, Young Fellows Zürich).
• January 31:
  • Rudi Balsam (89), German footballer (Holstein Kiel).
  • Ronnie Burbeck (90), English footballer (Leicester City, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Hereford United).
  • Derek McLean (92), English footballer (Middlesbrough, Hartlepool United).

• February 1:
  • Giancarlo Bagnasco (84), Italian footballer (Genoa, Messina, Alessandria, Borgosesia, Novese).
  • Raúl Gómez Ramírez (74), Mexican footballer (Guadalajara, Mexico).
  • Mehdi Haj Mohamad (74), Iranian footballer (Tâj, Iran).
  • Ingo Hermanns (53), East German and German footballer (1. FC Magdeburg, Motor Schönebeck, Kickers Emden).
  • Alberto Leguelé (71), Brazilian footballer (Bahia, Flamengo, CSA, Brazil Olympics). Played at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• February 2:
  • Ogün Altıparmak (86), Turkish footballer (Karşıyaka, Fenerbahçe, Washington Whips, Turkey). Father of former Turkish footballer Batur Altıparmak.
  • Björgólfur Guðmundsson (84), Icelandic businessman, chairman, and club owner (West Ham United). Father of Icelandic businessman and billionaire Björgólfur Thor.
  • Billy Pirie (75), Scottish footballer (Arbroath, Aberdeen, Dundee, Sydney Olympic).
  • Alan Shoulder (71), English footballer (Bishop Auckland, Newcastle United, Carlisle United, Hartlepool United) and manager.
• February 3:
  • Lima (83), Brazilian footballer (Juventus-SP, Santos, Jalisco, Fluminense, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Brazil).
• February 5:
  • Alfredo Letanú (72), Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors, Gimnasia y Esgrima, Unión Española, Estudiantes, Racing Club, San Lorenzo, Cartagena).
  • Rainer Schönwälder (84), German footballer (1. FC Saarbrücken, Alemannia Aachen, Preußen Münster, Union Luxembourg, Roda JC).
• February 6:
  • Andrzej Marchel (60), Polish footballer (Lechia Gdańsk).
  • Gordon Marshall (85), Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Hibernian, Aberdeen, Arbroath).
  • Frans Schellens (88), Belgian footballer (Berchem Sport) and manager (KFC Nijlen, KSK Heist, Berchem Sport).
  • Ernie Walley (91), Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough) and manager (Crystal Palace, Barking, Bangor City).
  • Wim van den Dungen (80), Dutch footballer (PSV Eindhoven, KFC Diest).
• February 7:
  • Jean-Charles Canetti (79), Italian-born French footballer (Nîmes Olympique, Arles, Olympique Alès).
  • Mick Walker (84), English footballer, manager (Singapore, Burton Albion, Notts County), and scout (Leeds United).
  • José María Suárez (73), Argentine footballer (Belgrano, Boca Juniors, Huracán, Argentina).
• February 9:
  • Santos Bedoya (85), Spanish footballer (Real Madrid Castilla, Espanyol, Real Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña, Sevilla) and manager (Sevilla, Recreativo de Huelva, Cacereño).
  • George Davies (97), English footballer (Oswestry Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Chester City).
  • Giuseppe Fornaciari (57), Italian footballer (Juventina Gela, Atletico Leonzio, Barletta, Foggia, Avellino, SPAL, Marsala, Puteolana, Palmese, Viribus Unitis).
  • Amado Palacios (83), Mexican footballer (Club Necaxa, Cruz Azul, Club América, Zacatepec, Mexico).
  • Giorgio Pellizzaro (77), Italian footballer (Mantova, Sampdoria, Catanzaro, Foggia, Brescia).
  • John Tudor (78), English footballer (Coventry City, Sheffield United, Newcastle United, Stoke City, Gent).
• February 10:
  • Takis Ikonomopoulos (81), Greek footballer (Apollon Smyrnis, Panathinaikos, Panachaiki, Greece), goalkeeping coach (Panathinaikos), and president of Panathinaikos AO (2017–2018).
  • David Socha (86), American soccer referee (NASL, FIFA). Refereed at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• February 11:
  • Tony Bedeau (45), English-born Grenadian footballer (Torquay United, Walsall, Grenada).
  • Gerrit Niehaus (84), Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles).
  • Paul Round (65), English footballer (Blackburn Rovers, Bury, Altrincham, Chorley).
  • Uladzimir Vostrykaw (48), Soviet-born Belarusian footballer (Dinamo Minsk, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Belshina Bobruisk, Torpedo Minsk, Vitebsk, Lokomotiv Minsk), assistant manager (Zvezda-BGU Minsk), and manager (Energetik-BGU Minsk reserves).
• February 12:
  • Ronnie Boyce (82), English footballer (West Ham United), caretaker manager (West Ham United), coach (West Ham United, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall), and scout (West Ham United, Tottenham Hotspur).
  • Ali Gagarin (75), Sudanese footballer (Al-Hilal, Al Nassr, Stade d'Abidjan, Sudan).
• February 13:
  • János Dunai (87), Hungarian footballer (Pécsi Dózsa, Hungary) and manager (Pécsi MSC, Szegedi EAC, Pécsi Vasutas). Bronze medalist at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
  • Fethi Heper (81), Turkish footballer (Eskişehirspor, Turkey).
  • Roger Pohon (85), French footballer (Nantes, France amateurs) and manager.
• February 14:
  • Avi Assouly (74), French and Israeli footballer (Racing Besançon), soldier, journalist, commentator, and politician.
  • Cees de Boer (83), Dutch footballer (VV De Zouaven, Alkmaar '54). Father of Dutch international footballers Frank and Ronald de Boer.
• February 15:
  • Louis Theobald (86), Maltese footballer (Hibernians, Malta).
• February 16:
  • Óscar Valdez (78), Argentine and Spanish footballer (Almirante Brown, Atlético Platense, Valencia, Spain) and manager (Mestalla, Valencia, Paraguay).
• February 17:
  • Aleksandr Komissarov (74), Soviet and Russian footballer (Zenit Penza) and manager (Zenit Penza, Svetotekhnika Saransk).
  • Volker Roth (83), German referee (Bundesliga, UEFA, FIFA).
• February 19:
  • Gholamhossein Farzami (79), Iranian footballer (Tâj, Iran) and manager.
  • Cammy Murray (80), Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Motherwell, Arbroath). Brother of Scottish footballer George Murray.
  • Hughen Riley (77), English footballer (Rochdale, Crewe Alexandra, Bury, Bournemouth, Dorchester Town, Weymouth).
• February 20:
  • Erhard Hofeditz (71), German footballer (KSV Baunatal, 1860 Munich, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Karlsruher SC, Kickers Offenbach).
  • Evan Williams (81), Scottish footballer (Third Lanark, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Aston Villa, Celtic, Clyde) and manager (Ardeer Thistle).
• February 21:
  • Piero Gonfiantini (87), Italian footballer (ACF Fiorentina, Pisa, Prato).
• February 22:
  • Geoffrey Maxwell, Jamaican footballer (Jamaica) and manager (Waterhouse, Jamaica).
  • Ishsam Shahruddin (58), Malaysian footballer (Perak FA, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia), politician, businessman and contractor.
  • Gennady Shapkin (68), Soviet and Russian footballer (Aktyubinets, Kuban Krasnodar, Torpedo Armavir).
• February 25:
  • Bernard Brochand (86), French politician, businessman, and club president (Paris Saint-Germain). Formerly a member of the National Assembly (2001–2022), and the mayor of Cannes (2001–2014).
  • Bejo Sugiantoro (47), Indonesian footballer (Persebaya Surabaya, PSPS Pekanbaru, Mitra Kukar, Persidafon Dafonsoro, Deltras Sidoarjo, Indonesia), assistant manager (Persebaya Surabaya), and manager (Persik Kediri, Persebaya Surabaya, Serpong City, Deltras).
• February 26:
  • Bjørn Ludvigsen (56), Norwegian footballer (Harstad IL, Tromsdalen UIL, Tromsø IL) and manager (Medkila IL womens).
  • Hans Pirkner (78), Austrian footballer (Austria Klagenfurt, Admira Energie, Schalke 04, Alpine Donawitz, Austria Wien, First Vienna, Austria).
• February 27:
  • Javier Dorado (48), Spanish footballer (Real Madrid C, Real Madrid B, Real Madrid, Salamanca, Sporting Gijón, Rayo Vallecano, RCD Mallorca).
  • Juan Ignacio Lasa (86), Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad, Osasuna).
  • Marvin Wijks (40), Dutch footballer (HFC Haarlem, 1. FC Magdeburg, FC Emmen, Rijnsburgse Boys).
• February 28:
  • Luca Manolache (19), Romanian footballer (FCSB, Chindia Târgoviște).
  • Evert Teunissen (95), Dutch footballer and manager (De Graafschap, SC Heerenveen, Heracles Almelo, Fortuna SC, FC Den Haag, Netherlands futsal).

• March 1:
  • Steve Fleet (87), English footballer (Manchester City, Wrexham, Stockport County) and manager (ÍA, ÍBV).
  • Nico Hidalgo (32), Spanish footballer (Motril, Granada B, Juventus, Cádiz, Racing Santander).
  • Tullio Lanese (78), Italian referee (Italian Football Federation, UEFA, FIFA).
• March 2:
  • Dennis Bond (77), English footballer (Watford, Tottenham Hotspur, Charlton Athletic).
  • Gérard Bourgoin (85), French businessman, politician, and president (Auxerre, Ligue de Football Professionnel).
  • Jos Dijkstra (80), Dutch footballer (DWS, PSV Eindhoven, Roda JC, FC Eindhoven
  • Ray De Gruchy (92), English footballer (Grimsby Town, Chesterfield, Burton Albion).
  • Yngve Leback (76), Swedish footballer (Älvsjö AIK, AIK, Vasalunds IF, Sweden).
• March 3:
  • John McTavish (93), Scottish footballer (Manchester City, St Mirren). Son of former Scottish footballer Bob McTavish and nephew of Scottish international footballer John McTavish.
• March 4:
  • Cássio de Jesus (35), Brazilian footballer (Guarani, Mogi Mirim, Concórdia, São Carlos, Tombense, Mamoré, Araxá, Semen Padang, Kelantan FA, Barito Putera, Hong Kong Rangers, Navy FC).
  • Heinz Ingenbold (87), German footballer (Schwarz-Weiß Essen).
  • Serhiy Zhuravlyov (65), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (Zorya Luhansk, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Metalist Kharkiv, Zimbru Chișinău, Dnipro Cherkasy).
• March 5:
  • Altin Çuko (50), Albanian footballer (Lushnja, Tomori Berat, Laçi).
  • Claude Hausknecht (80), French footballer (FC Metz, AS Monaco) and manager (US Forbach, F91 Dudelange).
  • Norberto Huezo (68), Salvadoran footballer (Atlético Marte, Monterrey, Palencia, Cartagena, Herediano, Jalapa, El Salvador) and manager (El Salvador U17, El Salvador U20).
  • Bruno Pizzul (86), Italian footballer (Catania, Cremonese), journalist, and actor.
• March 6:
  • Herminio González (84), Spanish footballer (Celta de Vigo, Cultural Leonesa).
  • Domingo Massaro (97), Chilean footballer (Audax Italiano, Chile) and referee (Football Federation of Chile, CONMEBOL). Played at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
  • Ray Snowball (92), English footballer (Bishop Auckland, Crook Town, Darlington).
• March 7:
  • Luís Carlos Galter (77), Brazilian footballer (Corinthians, Flamengo, Operário, Coritiba, Brazil).
  • Răzvan Ionilă (43), Romanian footballer (Poli AEK Timișoara, CF Braila, Petrolul Ploiești, Fortuna Covaci), player-manager (Flacara Faget), assitant manager (Poli Timișoara), and manager.
  • Omar Mendiburu (64), Mexican footballer (Cruz Azul, Neza, Oaxtepec, UANL, Puebla).
  • Jürgen Piepenburg (83), East German and German footballer (Vorwärts Berlin, Vorwärts Frankfurt) and manager (ASG Vorwärts Dessau, BFC Dynamo II, Germania Schöneiche, BFC Dynamo).
  • Oleksiy Shubin (49), Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer (Vedrich Rechitsa, Torpedo Zaporizhzhia, Metalurg Nikopol, Dnipro Cherkasy, Desna Chernihiv).
• March 8:
  • Bernardino Chaves (75), Costa Rican footballer (Turrialba, San Carlos, Limonense, Alajuelense, Universidad Nacional, Cartaginés, Herediano, Costa Rica).
• March 9:
  • Sergio Notarnicola (90), Italian and American soccer player (Brooklyn Italians, Torino, Alessandria, Foggia, Piacenza, United States).
  • Max Schwall (92), German footballer (FV Daxlanden, Karlsruher SC). Played at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
• March 11:
  • Alekos Alexiadis (79), Greek footballer (Aris Thessaloniki, Panetolikos, Kastoria, Greece).
• March 13:
  • Radiša Ilić (47), Yusoslav-born Serbian footballer (Sloboda Užice, Partizan, Național București, Borac Čačak, OFK Beograd, Serbia).
• March 14:
  • Jean-Claude Kuhnapfel (93), French footballer (FC Metz, Limoges, AS Troyes-Savinienne) and manager (SAS Épinal, SR Saint-Dié).
  • Jean-Pierre Plet (80), French footballer (SC Abbeville, USL Dunkerque, Nevers).
  • Fritz Scherer (85), German club president (Bayern Munich), economist, and university professor.
• March 15:
  • Bruce Dombolo (39), French footballer (Ancona, Pro Vasto, Marignane) and actor.
  • Doris Fitschen (56), German women's footballer (VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg, TSV Siegen, 1. FFC Frankfurt, Philadelphia Charge, Germany). Bronze medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
  • James Murphy (88), American soccer player (St. Louis Kutis, United States) and sheriff of St. Louis, Missouri.
• March 16:
  • Gavrilă Birău (80), Romanian footballer (UTA Arad, Aurul Brad) and manager (UTA Arad).
  • Jon Durham (59), English footballer (Rotherham United, Torquay United, Saltash United, Tiverton Town, Taunton Town).
  • Don Kitchenbrand (91), South African footballer (Rangers, Sunderland, Forfar Athletic, South Africa).
  • Andrej Lazarov (25), Macedonian footballer (Rabotnichki, Tikvesh, Rudeš, Gorica, Shkupi).
  • Greg Makowski (68), American soccer player (Colorado Caribous, Atlanta Chiefs, Seattle Sounders, United States) and indoor soccer player (St. Louis Steamers, Kansas City Comets, Los Angeles Lazers).
  • Fernando Sátiro (87), Brazilian footballer (Ceará, São Paulo, XV de Piracicaba, Ferroviária, Fortaleza).
• March 17:
  • Konrad Heidner (85), German footballer (Greuther Fürth, Greuther Fürth Amateure, ASV Zirndorf).
  • John Fraser (89), Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Stenhousemuir) and coach (Hibernian).
• March 19:
  • Kåre Aasgaard (91), Norwegian footballer (Åssiden IF, Norway).
  • Andrija Delibašić (43), Yugoslav-born Montenegrin footballer (Partizan, Mallorca, Benfica, Braga, AEK Athens, Beira-Mar, Real Sociedad, Hércules, Rayo Vallecano, Ratchaburi, Montenegro), assistant manager (Partizan, Budućnost Podgorica), and manager (Mornar).
  • Bruno Franceschina (93), Italian footballer (Biellese, Torino, Bari, Spezia, Cuneo, Saluzzo).
  • Hernán Godoy (83), Chilean footballer (Deportes La Serena, Santiago Wanderers, Palestino, Comunicaciones, Motagua, Audax Italiano, Alianza, Unión Magdalena), assistant manager (Audax Italiano), and manager (Audax Italiano, Ñublense, Trasandino, Deportes Arica, Deportes Concepción, Deportes Antofagasta, Santiago Wanderers, Deportes Linares, Comunicaciones, Unión Santa Cruz, Deportes Iquique, Santiago Morning, Mitra Kukar, Unión San Felipe).
  • Werner Otto (96), Saarland and German footballer (1. FC Saarbrücken, Saarland).
  • Vasile Simionaș (74), Romanian footballer (Dinamo Bacău, Politehnica Iași, Romania), assistant manager (Politehnica Iași), manager (Politehnica Iași, Cetatea Suceava, CSM Pașcani, Progresul București, Oțelul Galați, Astra Giurgiu, Farul Constanța), and board member (Politehnica Iași).
• March 20:
  • Sandro Tiberi (86), Italian footballer (AS Roma, Siena, Chieti, LR Vicenza, Cagliari, Chicago Mustangs, Atalanta, Valdagno, Italy B), assistant manager (Bologna), and manager (Cesena).
• March 22:
  • Ramón Barrenechea (84), Spanish footballer (Basconia, Cartagena, Elche, L'Hospitalet, Granada).
  • Djamel Menad (64), Algerian footballer (CR Belouizdad, JE Tizi Ouzou, Nîmes Olympique, Famalicão, Belenenses, USM Alger), assistant manager (Algeria), manager (USM Alger, USM Annaba, JSM Béjaïa, CR Belouizdad, MC Alger, Al-Wehda Club, USM El Harrach), and sporting director (JS Kabylie).
• March 25:
  • Rahim Abdullah (77), Malaysian footballer (Penang FA, Perak FA, Selangor FA, Malaysia) and manager (Malaysia).
  • Gerrit van de Weerthof (86), Dutch footballer (PEC Zwolle, FC Wageningen, SBV Vitesse).
  • Hank Steinbrecher (77), American college soccer player (Davis & Elkins Senators)), college soccer coach (Warren Wilson College, Appalachian State Mountaineers, Boston University Terriers), executive, and secretary general of the United States Soccer Federation (1990–2000). Member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
• March 26:
  • Lutz Blankenburg (69), East German footballer (Lokomotive Leipzig, Chemie Böhlen, BSG Motor Grimma).
  • John Herrick (78), Irish footballer (Cork Hibernians, Shamrock Rovers, Limerick, Drogheda United, League of Ireland XI, Republic of Ireland), player-manager (Galway United), and manager (Westport United, Galway United, Limerick).
  • Charles Spiteri (81), Maltese footballer (Sliema Wanderers, Birkirkara, Valletta, Lija Athletic, Malta).
  • Antoni Trzaskowski (83), Polish footballer (Legia Warsaw, Rochester Lancers, Poland).
• March 27:
  • Wolfgang Schnarr (83), German footballer (1. FC Kaiserslautern, Preußen Münster, ASV Landau).
• March 28:
  • Alfredo (78), Brazilian footballer (Palmeiras, Cruzeiro, Marcílio Dias, Nacional, América Rio Preto, Coritiba, Santos, Taubaté, Jorge Wilstermann).
  • Johann Eigenstiller (81), Austrian footballer (FC Wacker, Rapid Wien, SSW Innsbruck, Austria) and manager (SSW Innsbruck).
  • Armando Osma (63), Colombian footballer (Atlético Bucaramanga, Once Caldas, Deportivo Cali, Deportes Tolima, Millonarios, Cortuluá), assistant manager (Deportes Tolima, Aucas, Ecuador, Juan Aurich, La Equidad, Atlético Junior), and manager (Deportivo Cali (youth), Ecuador U23, Olmedo, Aucas, Manta, Macará, C.D. El NacionalEl Nacional (youth), Águila, América de Quito, Atlético Bucaramanga, Bogotá, Cumbayá).
  • Andreas Wendt (73), East German footballer (Vorwärts Leipzig, Energie Cottbus).
• March 30:
  • Leandro Lima (23), Brazilian footballer (São Bernardo, União Mogi, FK Pardubice, Samgurali Tskaltubo, 1. SK Prostějov). Brother of Brazilian footballer Léo Jabá.
• March 31:
  • Jacques Elong Elong (40), Cameroonian footballer (Caïman de Douala, Mount Cameroon, Persepolis, Sepahan, DAC Dunajská Streda, Paykan, Esteghlal, Naft Maysan, Cameroon).
  • Kurt Feuersinger (68), Austrian footballer (Austria Salzburg) and manager.
  • Franco Marmiroli (86), Italian footballer (Parma, AS Roma, Genoa, Modena, Cosenza, Cremonese) and manager (Suzzara).

• April 1:
  • Leandro Domingues (41), Brazilian footballer (Vitória, Cruzeiro, Fluminense, Kashiwa Reysol, Nagoya Grampus, Yokohama FC).
  • Giordano Mattavelli (89), Italian footballer (Simmenthal-Monza, Vigevano, Torino, Casale, Carrarese, Pro Sesto, Vogherese).
  • Faramarz Zelli (82), Iranian footballer (Kian, PAS Tehran, Taj, Iran).
• April 2:
  • Juan Antonio (81), Spanish footballer (Real Murcia, Atlético Madrid, Sevilla, Celta Vigo).
  • José Antonio Zamanillo (87), Spanish footballer (Castro, Gimnástica Torrelavega, Burgos, Atlético Madrid, Racing Santander).
  • Johnny King (92), English footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Stoke City, Cardiff City) and tennis player.
• April 3:
  • Hervé Collot (92), French footballer (FC Nancy) and manager (SAS Épinal, AS Nancy Lorraine).
  • Hellmut Trunschke (96), German and East German footballer, manager (Vorwärts Cottbus, Energie Cottbus), and rugby player.
  • Andy Wharton (63), English footballer (Burnley, Torquay United, Chester City).

April 4:

• • Ricardo Lapetra (88), Spanish footballer (Guadalajara, Real Zaragoza, Córdoba, Real Oviedo, Hércules).
  • Roberto Romei (64), Italian footballer (Sampdoria, Alessandria, Pistoiese, Pescara, Savona, Imperia).
• April 5:
  • Mouhcine Bouhlal (54), Moroccan footballer (FAR Rabat, Morocco), assistant manager (FAR Rabat), and manager (FAR Rabat, Stade Marocain).
  • Corrin Brooks-Meade (37), English-born Montserratian footballer (Fulham, Ermis Aradippou, Alki Larnaca, Omonia, Nea Salamis, Akritas Chlorakas, FC Montana, Oroklini-Troulloi, Montserrat).
• April 6:
  • Jorge Bolaño (47), Colombian footballer (Atlético Junior, Parma, Lecce, Modena, Cúcuta Deportivo, Colombia). Son of former Colombian international footballer Oscar Bolaño.
  • Albert Vanucci (77), French footballer (Ajaccio, Sochaux, Marseille, AS Monaco, Gazélec Ajaccio, Besançon RC, France) and manager (Gazélec Ajaccio).
  • Willie Vassallo (75), Maltese footballer (Gżira United, Floriana, Green Gully, Malta) and manager (Floriana)
• April 7:
  • Marcel Cupák (51), Czechoslovak-born Czech footballer (Svit Zlín, Boby Brno, Sigma Olomouc, FK Drnovice, Brno).
• April 8:
  • Wilhelm Burgsmüller (93), German footballer (Borussia Dortmund).
  • Manga (87), Brazilian footballer (Sport Recife, Botafogo, Nacional, Internacional, Operário, Coritiba, Grêmio, Barcelona de Guayaquil, Brazil).
  • Aurélio Pereira (77), Portuguese football coach and scout (Sporting CP).
  • Dieter Versen (79), German footballer (VfL Bochum, San Jose Earthquakes).
• April 9:
  • Eamon Farrell (83), Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers). Brother of Irish footballer Tommy Farrell, and father of Academy Awards-nominated Irish actor Colin Farrell.
  • Roland Mall (73), German footballer (VfB Stuttgart, VfR Heilbronn, Preußen Münster, Viktoria Köln).
  • Vitali Tasenko (50), Soviet-born Russian footballer (Istochnik Rostov-on-Don, SKA Rostov-on-Don, CSKA Moscow, Kuban Krasnodar).
• April 10:
  • Leo Beenhakker (82), Dutch footballer (Xerxes), assistant manager (Go Ahead Eagles, Ajax), and manager (Veendam, Cambuur, Go Ahead Eagles, Ajax, Real Zaragoza, Volendam, Netherlands, Real Madrid, Grasshoppers, Saudi Arabia, Club América, İstanbulspor, Guadalajara, Vitesse, Feyenoord, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland).
  • Alex Bryce (80), Scottish footballer (Third Lanark, Clyde, Dundee, Falkirk, Cowdenbeath).
  • Marijan Jantoljak (85), Yugoslav and Croatian footballer (Jedinstvo Zemun, Rijeka, Borac Banja Luka, Segesta Sisak, Yugoslavia) and manager (Segesta Sisak, Rijeka, Inter Zaprešić, Karlovac, Koper, Opatija, Orijent Rijeka).
  • Oleksandr Kosevych (59), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (Harant Donetsk), president (Harant Donetsk, Metalurh Donetsk), director (Shakhtar Donetsk, Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih), and manager (Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, Zorya Luhansk, Avanhard Kramatorsk).
  • Alexis Noble (61), Uruguayan footballer (Peñarol, Independiente Medellín, Universidad Católica, Nacional, San Lorenzo, River Plate Montevideo, Central Español, Defensor Sporting, Sud América, Aucas, Progreso, Rampla Juniors, Cerro, Fénix).
• April 11:
  • Joe Eaton (93), English footballer (Mansfield Town).^{[n 1]}
  • Klaus Lambertz (84), German footballer (Werder Bremen Amateure, Werder Bremen).
• April 12:
  • Christian Chukwu (74), Nigerian footballer (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria) and manager (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria U17, Kenya, Nigeria).
  • Lionel Justier (68), French footballer (Paris Saint-Germain, Paris FC, Brest, Nîmes Olympique, Montceau, Châtellerault, Beauvais, France B).
  • Ibrahim Shika (28), Egyptian footballer (Zamalek).
• April 14:
  • Beniamino Cancian (89), Italian footballer (Torino, Pinerolo, Mantova, Venezia), assistant manager (Torino, Foggia), and manager (Torino youth, Clodiense Chioggia, Como, Modena, Venezia, Pordenone, Nocerina, Campobasso, Cavese, Padova, Foggia, Sacilese).
  • Carlton Fairweather (63), English footballer (Dulwich Hamlet, Bromley, Tooting & Mitcham United, Wimbledon, Porin Pallotoverit, Kuopion Pallotoverit, Carlisle United, Connecticut Wolves) and manager (Wimbledon Reserves, Crystal Palace Reserves, Sunderland High School, Sunderland Ladies).
  • Serge Lugier (78), French footballer (Red Star F.C.|Red Star]], Laval, Angoulême, Valenciennes).
  • Slobodan Milosavljević (81), Yugoslav-born French footballer (Sint-Truiden, Valenciennes, FC Sète) and manager (FC Sète, Aurillac).^{[n 1]}
• April 15:
  • Abel Díez (72), Spanish footballer (Cultural Leonesa, Real Avilés, CD Gijón, Sporting Gijón, Hércules, San Martín).
  • Carlos Enrique Herrera (89), Costa Rican footballer (Alajuelense, Monarcas Morelia, Sacachispas, Aurora, Deportivo Saprissa, Municipal, Costa Rica).
  • Martin Petkov (36), Austrian footballer (DSV Leoben, SC-ESV Parndorf 1919, SV Horn) and manager.
  • Kees Smit, Dutch footballer (HFC EDO, Ajax, FC Zaanstreek, Pittsburgh Phantoms).
• April 16:
  • Aaron Boupendza (28), Gabonese footballer (CF Mounana, Bordeaux B, Pau, Gazélec Ajaccio, Tours, Hatayspor, Al-Arabi, Al-Shabab, FC Cincinnati, Rapid București, Zhejiang FC, Gabon).
  • Iain Gillies (89), Scottish and New Zealand footballer (Nairn County, Celtic, Crewe Alexandra, Eastern Union, New Zealand).
• April 17:
  • Simon Lehoko (74), South African footballer (Vaal Professionals, Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa).
  • Joe Thompson (36), English footballer (Rochdale, Tranmere Rovers, Carlisle United).
  • Billy Young (86), Irish footballer (Bohemians) and manager (Athlone Town, Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians, League of Ireland XI).
• April 18:
  • Giulio Drago (62), Italian footballer (Aosta, Juventus, Cremonese, Atalanta, Empoli, Bari, Triestina, Pontedera).
  • Mick McGrath (89), Irish footballer (Home Farm, Blackburn Rovers, Bradford Park Avenue, Bangor City, Republic of Ireland) and manager (Bangor City).
  • Nikola Pokrivač (39), Yugoslav-born Croatian footballer (NK Varteks, Dinamo Zagreb, AS Monaco, Red Bull Salzburg, Inter Zaprešić, Rijeka, Shakhter Karagandy, Slaven Belupo, Croatia) and assistant manager (Rudeš).
• April 19:
  • József Garami (85), Hungarian footballer (Pécsi Dózsa, Pécsi VSK, Komlói Bányász SK) and manager (Pécsi MFC, Hungary, Újpest, MTK Budapest, Győri ETO, Ferencváros).
  • Niwat Srisawat (77), Thai footballer (Raj-Vithi, PAT F.C., Thailand) and manager (Thai Port).
• April 20:
  • Hugo Gatti (80), Argentine footballer (Atlanta, River Plate, Gimnasia La Plata, Unión Santa Fe, Boca Juniors, Argentina). Father of former Argentine footballer Lucas Gatti.
  • Werner Lorant (76), German footballer (Borussia Dortmund, Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Saarbrücken, Eintracht Frankfurt, Schalke 04, Hannover 96) and manager (1. FC Schweinfurt 05, Viktoria Aschaffenburg, TSV 1860 Munich, Fenerbahçe, Rot Weiss Ahlen, Incheon United, APOEL, Sivasspor, Saipa Kara, Kayseri Erciyesspor, SpVgg Unterhaching, Kasımpaşa, Liaoning, ATA Spor München, DAC Dunajská Streda).
  • Tes Sambath (24), Cambodian footballer (Boeung Ket, Visakha, Cambodia).
  • Guelso Zaetta (93), French footballer (Angers, Nantes, Racing Besançon) and manager (Nantes reserves).
• April 21:
  • Cecil Irwin (83), English footballer (Sunderland, Vancouver Royals, Yeovil Town, Ashington) and manager (Yeovil Town, Ashington).
• April 22:
  • David Clunie (77), Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian, St Johnstone, Scottish Football League XI).
  • Kang Ji-yong (35), South Korean footballer (Pohang Steelers, Busan IPark, Bucheon FC, Gangwon FC, Incheon United, Gangneung Citizen, Cheonan City).
• April 23:
  • André Bosson (83), Swiss footballer (Étoile Carouge, Servette, Sion, Lausanne-Sport, Switzerland), player-manager (FC Meyrin), and manager (FC Meyrin, Chênois).
  • Jim Herriot (85), Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Birmingham City, Durban City, Hibernians, St Mirren, Scottish Football League XI, Scotland).
  • Jaromír Paciorek (45), Czechoslav-born Czech footballer (Excelsior, Fortuna Sittard, 1.FC Brno, Spartak Hulín).
• April 24:
  • Ivan Sotirov (90), Bulgarian footballer (Spartak Plovdiv, Botev Plovdiv).
• April 25:
  • Noël Minga (77), Congolese footballer (Inter Brazzaville, Congo) and manager (Congo).
  • Stanley Tshosane (68), Motswana footballer (BDF XI), assistant manager (Botswana U20, BDF XI), and manager (Mogoditshane Fighters, BDF XI, Botswana).
• April 26:
  • José Carlos (83), Portuguese footballer (CUF, Sporting CP, Braga, Portugal) and manager (Oriental, Braga, Boavista, Varzim, Chaves, Águeda, Gil Vicente, União Santarém, Fafe, Dragões Sandinenses, Lourinhanense).
  • Jair da Costa (84), Brazilian footballer (Portuguesa, Inter Milan, AS Roma, Santos, Brazil).
• April 27:
  • Hansi Alpert (92), East German footballer (BSG Lok Stendal, VfL Osnabrück).
  • Jaroslav Bendl (77), Czechoslovak footballer (Dukla Prague, Czechoslovakia).
  • John Gregson (85), English footballer (Blackpool, Chester City, Shrewsbury Town, Mansfield Town, Lincoln City, Cambridge United).
  • Noureddine Hamiti (82), Algerian footballer (CR Belouizdad, Algeria).
  • Ken Hancock (87), English footballer (Port Vale, Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur, Bury) and manager (Leek Town).
• April 28:
  • Peter Burridge (91), English footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall, Crystal Palace, Charlton Athletic).
• April 29:
  • Pascal Havet (60), French footballer (Paris Saint-Germain, Red Star, Lyon, Rouen, Angoulême) and manager.
• April 30:
  • Bahman Salehnia (86), Iranian assistant manager (Iran) and manager (Malavan, Chooka Talesh).

• May 1:
  • Manolo el del Bombo (76), Spanish football fan (Valencia, Spain).
  • Andrejs Prohorenkovs (48), Soviet-born Latvian footballer (Olimpija Rīga, FK Jūrnieks, Czuwaj Przemyśl, Odra Opole, Górnik Zabrze, Maccabi Kiryat Gat, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Dynamo Moscow, Racing de Ferrol, Ionikos, Liepājas Metalurgs, FC Jūrmala, Latvia) and player-manager (FK Ogre).
  • David Woodfield (91), English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Los Angeles Wolves, Watford) and manager (Saudi Arabia, Sabah).
• May 3:
  • Jake Findlay (70), Scotland footballer (Aston Villa, Luton Town).
  • Lorraine Taylor (63), New Zealand women's footballer (New Zealand).
  • Steve Uzelac (72), English footballer (Doncaster Rovers, Preston North End, Stockport County).
• May 4:
  • David Karako (80), Israeli footballer (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beitar Jerusalem, Hapoel Yehud, Israel) and manager (Hapoel Yehud, Lazarus Holon, Hapoel Or Yehuda, Maccabi Herzliya, Hapoel Tayibe, Ramat Gan).
  • Peter McParland (91), Northern Irish footballer (Dundalk, Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Plymouth Argyle, Atlanta Chiefs, Northern Ireland), player-manager (Glentoran, Hong Kong).
  • Uno Piir (95), Estonian and Soviet footballer (Dünamo, Tallinna Kalev), assistant manger (Tallinna Kalev), and manager (Norma Tallinn, Estonia, Tallinna Sadam, Nõmme Kalju).
  • Tom Youngs (45), English footballer (Cambridge United, Northampton Town, Leyton Orient, Bury).
• May 5:
  • Leonidas Aguirre (82), Colombian footballer (Santa Fe).
  • Luis Galván (77), Argentine footballer (Talleres de Córdoba, Loma Negra, Belgrano, Central Norte, Club Bolívar, Argentina).
• May 6:
  • Eduardo Zóttola (80), Argentine footballer (Atlético Tucumán, Vélez Sarsfield, Newell's Old Boys, Belgrano).
• May 7:
  • Joop van Daele (77), Dutch footballer (Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles, Fortuna Sittard, Excelsior), assistant manager (Fortuna Sittard, Excelsior, DS '79), and manager (VV Papendrecht, Excelsior).
  • Chris Rabjohn (80), English footballer (Rotherham United, Doncaster Rovers).
• May 8:
  • Oliviero Garlini (68), Italian footballer (Como, Empoli, Nocerina, Fano, Cesena, Lazio, Internazionale, Atalanta, Ancona, Ascoli, Ravenna).
• May 9:
  • Sahib Khazal (82), Iraqi footballer (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, Iraq) and manager (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya).
  • Winfried Patzer (84), East German footballer (SC Motor Karl-Marx-Stadt, Carl Zeiss Jena).
  • Francisco Rotunno (49), Chilean footballer (Coquimbo Unido, Deportes Antofagasta, Cobresal, Deportes La Serena, Persekabpas Pasuruan, Sriwijaya FC).
• May 10:
  • Gerry Francis (91), South African-born English footballer (Leeds United, York City, Tonbridge).
  • Wolfgang Rausch (78), German footballer (1. FC Köln, Rot-Weiss Essen, Kickers Offenbach, Bayern Munich, Dallas Tornado), indoor soccer player (Detroit Lightning, Dallas Tornado, New Jersey Rockets), and player-manager (Dallas Americans).
• May 11:
  • Jim Burns (81), Scottish footballer (Cowdenbeath, Clyde, Stirling Albion).
  • Enzo Ferrari (82), Italian footballer (Sandonà, Forlì, Arezzo, Genoa, Palermo, Clodiasottomarina) and manager (Conegliano Calcio, Udinese, Real Zaragoza, Triestina, Avellino, Padova, Palermo, Reggina, Alessandria, Ascoli, Arezzo).
  • Wilberforce Mfum (88), Ghanaian footballer (Asante Kotoko, Baltimore Bays, Ukrainian SC, Ukrainian Nationals, New York Cosmos, Ghana).
• May 12:
  • Per Bartram (81), Danish footballer (Odense BK, Greenock Morton, Crystal Palace, Bonnyrigg Rose, Denmark).
  • Colin Booth (90), English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Nottingham Forest, Doncaster Rovers, Oxford United, Cambridge United, Cheltenham Town).
• May 13:
  • Chic Bates (75), English footballer (Shrewsbury Town, Swindon Town, Bristol Rovers) and manager (Shrewsbury Town, Stoke City).
  • Gerry Fell (74), English footballer (Brighton & Hove Albion, Southend United, Torquay United, Happy Valley AA). Grandson of former English footballer Gerry Fell.
  • Ramón de Pablo Marañón (87), Spanish footballer (Atlético Madrid, Levante, Real Murcia, Barcelona, Córdoba, Gimnàstic Tarragona, Sabadell, Mallorca, Catalonia).
  • Manou Scheitler (67), Luxembourgish footballer (Jeunesse Esch, Union Luxembourg, Luxembourg).
• May 15:
  • Karl-Heinz Vogt (80), German footballer (1. FC Saarbrücken, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, VfR Bürstadt, FC 08 Homburg) and manager.
• May 16:
  • René Bonora (73), Cuban footballer (FC Granjeros, Cuba).^{[n 1]}
  • Shaun Dennis (55), Scottish footballer (Raith Rovers, Hibernian, Brechin City) and caretaker manager (Raith Rovers).
  • Brian Glanville (93), English football writer and novelist.
  • Emmanuel Kundé (68), Cameroonian footballer (Canon Yaoundé, Laval, Stade de Reims, Olympic Mvolyé, Cameroon) and manager (Canon Yaoundé, US Bitam, PWD Bamenda).
  • Manolis Papadopoulos (57), Greek footballer (Olympiacos, Ionikos, AEK Athens, Apollon Smyrnis, Ethnikos Piraeus, PAS Giannina, Greece), assistant manager (AEK Athens), and manager (AE Giannena, Lamia, AEK Athens U20, Proodeftiki, Egaleo, APO Kanaris Nenita).
• May 17:
  • Gorgis Ismail (82), Iraqi footballer (Iraq).
• May 18:
  • Bruno Capra (87), Italian footballer (Bolzano, Bologna, Foggia & Incedit).
• May 19:
  • David Demaine (83), English footballer (Tranmere Rovers, Southport, Hartford SC, New York Ukrainians, Toronto Falcons, Toronto White Eagles).
  • Alec Farrall (89), English footballer (Everton, Preston North End, Gillingham, Lincoln City, Watford).
  • Ignacio Rodríguez (68), Mexican footballer (Zacatepec, Atlético Morelia, Atlante, Tigres UANL, Mexico), assistant manager (Necaxa, Correcaminos, Petroleros de Salamanca, Chiapas, Irapuato, Oaxaca, Orgullo Reynosa), and manager (Irapuato, Correcaminos, Veracruz, Lobos BUAP, Zacatepec, Cuautla).
  • Alfonso Tovar (77), Colombian footballer (Deportivo Cali, Deportes Quindío, Millonarios, Once Caldas, Deportivo Pereira, Atlético Junior, Atlético Bucaramanga, Cúcuta Deportivo).
• May 20:
  • Gadi Kinda (31), Ethiopian-born Israeli footballer (Ashdod, Beitar Jerusalem, Sporting Kansas City, Maccabi Haifa, Israel).
• May 21:
  • Nol de Ruiter (85), Dutch footballer (DOS, USV Elinkwijk) and manager (FC Den Bosch, Cambuur, FC Wageningen, SVV, BV Veendam, FC Utrecht, Netherlands, ADO Den Haag, Egypt).
• May 22:
  • Uwe Witt (86), German footballer (Hamburger SV Amateure, Concordia Hamburg, FC St. Pauli, Arminia Hannover, Holstein Kiel, Hertha BSC).
• May 23:
  • Oleksandr Berezhnyi (67), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, Tavriya Simferopol, Soviet Union).^{[n 1]}
  • Pavel Chaloupka (66), Czechoslovak and Czech footballer (Sklo Union Teplice, Dukla Prague, Bohemians Praha, Fortuna Düsseldorf, FC Berlin, Czechoslovakia).
  • John Froggatt (79), English footballer (Notts County, Ilkeston Town, Buxton, Boston United, Colchester United, Port Vale, Northampton Town) and manager (Boston United, Ilkeston Town).
  • Gerry Murphy (81), Irish manager (Bradley Rangers) and caretaker manager (Huddersfield Town).
• May 24:
  • Kiril Ivkov (78), Bulgarian footballer (Metalurg Pernik, Minyor Pernik, Levski Sofia, Etar Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria), assistant manager (Bulgaria), and manager (Levski Sofia, Osam Lovech, Sliven, Spartak Varna, Etar Veliko Tarnovo).
  • T. Gopinath Naidu (50), Malaysian footballer (Kuala Lumpur FA, Perak FA, Malaysia).
  • Gary Pierce (74), English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Barnsley, Blackpool, Accrington Stanley) and manager (Accrington Stanley, Netherfield).
  • Eugenio Rizzolini (87), Italian footballer (Inter Milan, Novara, Mantova, Brescia).
• May 25:
  • Bill Asprey (88), English footballer (Stoke City, Oldham Athletic, Port Vale) and manager (Rhodesia, Oxford United, Syria, Stoke City, Iraq U23, ATM).
• May 26:
  • Horacio Díaz Luco (74), Chilean footballer (Santiago Wanderers, Herediano, Cartaginés, Águila, Limón Sprite, Turrialba, Limonense) and manager (Limón Sprite).
  • Waleed Al-Jasem (65), Kuwaiti footballer (Kuwait SC, Kuwait).
  • Grenville Millington (73), Welsh footballer (Chester, Rhyl, Witton Albion, Oswestry Town, Wrexham).
  • Gerd Wörmer (80), German footballer (Tennis Borussia Berlin, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Rot-Weiss Essen).
• May 27:
  • Graeme Crawford (77), Scottish footballer (Sheffield United, York City, Scunthorpe United, Rochdale, Scarborough).
  • Willie Stevenson (85), Scottish footballer (Rangers, Liverpool, Stoke City, Hellenic, Tranmere Rovers, Limerick, Vancouver Whitecaps, Macclesfield Town, Scottish Football League XI).
  • Juan Ramón Verón (81), Argentine footballer (Estudiantes, Panathinaikos, Atlético Junior, Cúcuta Deportivo, Argentina). Father of former Argentine international footballer Juan Sebastián Verón and grandfather of Argentine footballer Deian Verón.
• May 29:
  • Toño Díez (72), Spanish footballer (Real Valladolid, Mallorca).
• May 31:
  • Adolfo Andrade (75), Colombian footballer (Deportes Quindío, Deportivo Cali, Deportivo Pereira, Deportes Tolima, Once Caldas, Colombia).
  • Ernesto Pellegrini (84), Italian businessman and former chairman of Inter Milan (1984–1995)
• Date Unknown:
  • Julián Icazuriaga (85), Spanish footballer (Sestao Sport, Burgos CF, Real Oviedo, Ourense).

• June 1:
  • Raymond Destin (79), Martiniquais manager (Martinique, RC Rivière-Pilote).
  • Klaus Engels (86), East German footballer (Lokomotive Meiningen, Einheit Dresden, Dynamo Dresden).
• June 2:
  • Erroll Bennett (75), Tahitian footballer (AS Central Sport, Paris Saint-Germain, Tahiti). Father of Tahitian politician and former international footballer Naea Bennett.
  • Gustáv Mráz (90), Czechoslovak footballer (Inter Bratislava, Sparta Prague, Czechoslovakia).
  • José Antonio Tejedor (81), Spanish footballer (Real Valladolid, Real Zaragoza, Deportivo La Coruña) and manager (Real Ávila, Palencia).
• June 3:
  • Osvaldinho (79), Portuguese footballer (Vitória Guimarães, Boavista, Marítimo, Gil Vicente, Portugal).
• June 4:
  • Bernd Fischer (86), German coach (Barbados, Bermuda) and manager (Wormatia Worms, Indonesia).
  • Alejandro Ramírez (71), Mexican footballer (Atlante, Mexico).
• June 5:
  • Friedhelm Jesse (89), German footballer (Westfalia Herne, MSV Duisburg, Sporta Luxembourg) and coach.
• June 6:
  • Peter Barac (61), Austrian footballer (Austria Klagenfurt, Vorwärts Steyr, VSE St. Pölten, FC St. Veit).
  • Zenon Zaczyński (82), Polish footballer (Odra Opole, Górnik Wałbrzych, San Jose Earthquakes), indoor soccer player (San Jose Earthquakes), and assistant manager (Górnik Wałbrzych
• June 7:
  • Victoriano Dominé (74), Argentine footballer (Estudiantes (LP), Atlanta, Atlético Tucumán, Vélez Sarsfield, Colón, Los Andes).
  • Marek Košút (36), Czechoslovak-born Slovakian footballer (Nitra, Nové Zámky, Šaľa, Slovan Galanta).
  • Uriah Rennie (65), Jamaican-born English referee (Northern Premier League, English Football League, Premier League, The Football Association, FIFA). First black referee to officiate a Premier League match.
• June 9:
  • Panikos Krystallis (86), Cypriot footballer (AEL Limassol, Apollon Limassol, AEK Athens, Cyprus) and manager (Apollon Limassol, AEL Limassol, Cyprus, Evagoras Paphos).
  • Viktor Pimushin (70), Soviet and Russian footballer (Spartak Kostroma, Torpedo Moscow, Fakel Voronezh, Kuzbass Kemerovo, Kolkheti Khobi, Baltika Kaliningrad, Krasnogvardeyets Moscow) and assistant manager (Krasnogvardeyets Moscow).
  • Marcel Sabou (59), Romanian footballer (Politehnica Timișoara, Dinamo București, Real Madrid Castilla, Tenerife, Racing Santander, Sporting Gijón, Desportivo Chaves).
• June 10:
  • Slaviša Đurković (56), Yugoslav and Montenegrin footballer (Sutjeska Nikšić, Leotar, Budućnost Valjevo).
  • Günter Madeja (86), East German footballer (BSG Empor Neustrelitz, Empor/Hansa Rostock) and manager (TSG Bau Rostock).
  • Bill McKinney (88), English footballer (Newcastle United, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Mansfield Town).
• June 12:
  • Bernard Samson (66), French footballer (Stade Rennais, Abbeville, Guingamp).
• June 13:
  • Juan Carlos Carone (83), Argentine footballer (Atlanta, Vélez Sarsfield, Racing Club, Veracruz, Argentina).
  • Barney Daniels (74), English footballer (Manchester United, Ashton United, Manchester City, Chester City, Stockport County, Hyde United).
  • Norbert Irtel (80), German footballer (Hannover 96, SpVgg Preußen Hameln, TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven) and manager.
  • Artur Santos (94), Portuguese footballer (Benfica, Portugal) and manager (Olhanense, União de Tomar, Atlético Clube de Portugal, Alcobaça, Juventude Sport Clube, Farense, Sagrada Esperança).
  • Franzo Grande Stevens (96), Italian lawyer (Agnelli family), and club chairman (Juventus).
• June 14:
  • Paul Alger (81), German footballer (Bonner SC, 1. FC Köln, Viktoria Köln).
  • Sabirou Bassa-Djeri (37), Togolese footballer (Tchaoudjo AC, AC Semassi, Béké, Coton Sport, Enyimba, Togo).
  • Willy Lang (80), East German footballer (FC Karl-Marx-Stadt, Fortschritt Krumhermersdorf, BSG Motor Fritz Heckert Karl-Marx-Stadt).
  • Eberhard Strauch (77), German footballer (SV Meppen, Rot-Weiss Essen) and manager (VfL Herzlake).
• June 16:
  • Dick Edwards (82), English footballer (Notts County, Mansfield Town, Aston Villa, Torquay United, Bath City) and country musician.
  • Lutz Hofmann (58), German footballer (Wormatia Worms, VfR Mannheim, VfR Bürstadt, Waldhof Mannheim, TSG Pfeddersheim) and manager (TSG Pfeddersheim, Wormatia Worms).
  • Roland Kastner (68), German footballer (Greuther Fürth).
  • Ernst Tippelt (82), footballer (Stuttgarter Kickers, Preußen Münster, Fribourg, Lugano, Vevey-Sports, Bulle, Montreux-Sports).
• June 17:
  • Louis Carra (93), French footballer (Toulon, Racing Besançon, Bordeaux).
  • Egon Coordes (80), German footballer (TuS Bremerhaven 93, Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart), manager (OSC Bremerhaven, VfB Stuttgart, Hamburger SV, Al-Ahli, Austria Wien, Hannover 96, FC Luzern, Iran U23, Al Khaleej), and scout (Bayern Munich).
  • Bernard Lacombe (72), French footballer (Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux, France) and manager (Lyon).
  • Hans-Peter Lamparth (78), German footballer (Karlsruher SC, Arminia Hannover, 1. FC Pforzheim).
• June 18:
  • Giuseppe Gaspari (92), Italian footballer (Livorno, Catania, Juventus, Modena).
  • Gennady Korkin (61), Soviet and Russian footballer (Spartak Ordzhonikidze, Dinamo Minsk, Metallurg Lipetsk, PK-37, Olympiakos Nicosia, Spartak Anapa, Zvezda Irkutsk) and director (Metallurg Lipetsk).
  • Braulio Musso (95), Chilean footballer (Universidad de Chile, Chile) and manager (Universidad de Chile).
  • Arturo Torres (85), Bolivian footballer (Deportivo Municipal, The Strongest, Bolivia).
• June 19:
  • António Morato (88), Portuguese footballer (Sporting CP, Vitória Setúbal, Lusitano Évora, Barreirense, Oriental, Portugal). Father of former Portuguese international footballer António Morato.
• June 21:
  • Umberto Pinardi (97), Italian footballer (Gallaratese, Como, Juventus, Udinese, Lazio) and manager (Pisa, Massese, Ternana, Palermo, Brescia, SPAL, Modena, Taranto, Cavese).
• June 22:
  • Dudley Lewis (62), Welsh footballer (Swansea City, Huddersfield Town, Halifax Town, Wrexham, Torquay United, Inter Cardiff, Carmarthen Town, Wales).
  • Rolando Vargas (86), Bolivian footballer (Jorge Wilstermann, Bolivia).
• June 23:
  • John Clark (84), Scottish footballer (Celtic, Greenock Morton, Scottish Football League XI, Scotland), assistant manager (Aberdeen, Celtic), and manager (Cowdenbeath, Stranraer, Clyde). Father of former Scottish footballer Martin Clark.
  • Li Fubao (69), Chinese footballer (Hubei, Jiangsu, China).
  • Adolfo Olivares (84), Chilean footballer (Everton, Ferrobádminton, Universidad de Chile, Palestino, Huachipato, Santiago Morning, Audax Italiano, Magallanes, Alianza, The Strongest, Aurora, Chile).
  • John Tarkpor (38), Liberian footballer (Mighty Blue Angels, Mighty Barrolle, LPRC Oilers, Persiter Ternate, Persitara North Jakarta, Pelita Jaya, Persijap Jepara, Liberia).
• June 24:
  • Djamel Chaïbi (65), Algerian footballer (ES Sétif, Algeria).
  • Eduardo Cofré (63), Chilean footballer (Santiago Wanderers, Deportes Concepción, Palestino, Cobresal, Everton, Universidad de Chile, Chile).
• June 25:
  • Marco Barlatay (51), Argentine footballer (Independiente, Arsenal Sarandí, Godoy Cruz, Gimnasia y Tiro, Huracán, Quilmes, Nueva Chicago, Spezia Calcio).
  • Wolfgang Mahr (72), German footballer (Kronach 08, SpVgg Bayreuth) and manager (SpVgg Bayreuth, Bayern Hof).
  • Hitoshi Morishita (57), Japanese footballer (Tosu Futures) and manager (Zweigen Kanazawa, Giravanz Kitakyushu).
• June 26:
  • Jarosław Studzizba (69), Polish footballer (Odra Opole, Górnik Zabrze, Polonia Bytom, Polonia Warsaw, Lechia Gdańsk, Eintracht Braunschweig, Austria Salzburg, KFC Winterslag, KSC Hasselt).
• June 27:
  • Terry Miles (88), English footballer (Port Vale).
  • Paolo Sirena (79), Italian footballer (Treviso, AS Roma, Hellas Verona).
• June 28:
  • Gyula Tóth (80), Hungarian footballer (Szombathelyi Haladás, Budapest Honvéd, Zalaegerszegi).
  • Jacques Vergnes (76), French footballer (Montpellier, Red Star, Nîmes Olympique, Bastia, Stade de Reims, Laval, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, France).
• June 29:
  • Brian Banda (29), Zimbabwean footballer (Highlanders, FC Platinum, Zimbabwe).
  • Alan Peacock (87), English footballer (Middlesbrough, Leeds United, Plymouth Argyle, England).
  • Paco Pérez Durán (63), Spanish footballer (Castilla, Deportivo La Coruña, Granada, Parla, Alcoyano, Cartagena, Linares, Racing Santander).
  • József Tajti (81), Hungarian footballer (Pénzügyőr SE, Kaposvári, Budapest Honvéd) and manager (Budapest Honvéd, Fehérvár, Hungary U21, Csepel SC, Dunaújváros FC, BVSC Budapest).
  • Reidar Tessem (80), Norwegian footballer (Bodø/Glimt, Lyn, Frigg) and manager.
• June 30:
  • Lajos Sătmăreanu (81), Romanian footballer (Stăruința Salonta, Crișana Oradea, ASA Târgu Mureș, Steaua București, Bihor Oradea, Progresul București, Romania) and manager (Steaua București youth, Bihor Oradea).

• July 1:
  • Yuriy Dubrovnyi (71), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (SC Lutsk, Karpaty Lviv, Nistru Chişinău, SKA Karpaty Lviv, Wacker Nordhausen, Motor Eberswalde, Halychyna Drohobych, FC Lviv, Hazovyk Komarno), assistant manager (Halychyna Drohobych), and manager (Halychyna Drohobych, Hazovyk-Skala Stryi, Karpaty-2 Lviv, Tekhno-Center Rohatyn, Nyva Ternopil, Rava Rava-Ruska, Spartakus Szarowola, Karpaty Kolomyia).
  • Rinus Israël (83), Dutch footballer (DWS, Feyenoord, Excelsior, PEC Zwolle, Netherlands), assistant manager (PEC Zwolle) and manager (FC Den Bosch, Feyenoord, PAOK, Netherlands U21, Ghana, Al-Jazira Club, Al-Shabab, Al-Wahda, ADO Den Haag). Grandfather of Dutch international handball player Rachel de Haze.
  • Ahmed Zahzah (91), Algerian footballer (USM Blida, FLN) and manager (ES Berrouaghia, USM Blida).
• July 2:
  • Juan Álvarez (77), Mexican footballer (Atlético Español, Tecos, Mexico), assistant manager (Jaguares, Pachuca, Tigres UANL, Necaxa, Tecos), and manager (Correcaminos UAT, Tecos, Atlético Cuernavaca, Celaya, Deportivo Toluca, Veracruz, Ángeles de Puebla, Halcones de Querétaro, Deportivo Saprissa).
  • Hermann Merchel (88), German footballer (SG Wattenscheid 09, Schwarz-Weiß Essen, VfL Kray).
• July 3:
  • Alain Douville (75), French footballer (Saint-Lô, Caen, France amateurs).
  • Gallet (95), Spanish footballer (Elche, Hércules, Alcoyano, Real Valladolid, Real Sociedad).
  • Diogo Jota (28), Portuguese footballer (Paços de Ferreira, Atlético Madrid, Porto, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Liverpool, Portugal). Brother of Portuguese footballer André Silva.
  • Peter Rufai (61), Nigerian footballer (Stationery Stores, Dragons de l'Ouémé, Lokeren, Beveren, Go Ahead Eagles, Farense, Hércules, Deportivo La Coruña, Gil Vicente, Nigeria).
  • André Silva (25), Portuguese footballer (Gondomar, Penafiel). Brother of Portuguese international footballer Diogo Jota.
  • Stephen Vaughan Sr. (62), English boxing promoter businessman, owner and chairman (Barrow, Chester City, Floriana), and criminal. Father of English footballer, coach, and criminal Stephen Vaughan Jr..^{[n 1]}
• July 4:
  • Gordon Jago (92), English footballer (Dulwich Hamlet, Charlton Athletic), assistant manager (United States) and manager (Eastbourne United, Baltimore Bays, United States, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Dallas Sidekicks).
• July 5:
  • Ida Golin (65), Italian women's footballer (Gamma 3 Padova, Lazio 1975 Lubiam, Gorgonzola, Piacenza, Modena Ritt Jeans, A.C.F. Milan 82, Italy).
• July 6:
  • Graham Ricketts (85), English footballer (Bristol Rovers, Stockport County, Doncaster Rovers, Peterborough United, King's Lynn, March Town United, Yaxley).
  • Luis Valoy (67), Argentine footballer (Sarmiento (LB), Atlético Tucumán, Racing Club, Deportivo Morón, All Boys, Argentino de Quilmes, Central Córdoba).
• July 7:
  • Miguel Ángel López (83), Argentine footballer (Sarmiento, Estudiantes (LP), Ferro Carril Oeste, River Plate, Independiente, Atlético Nacional, Argentina) and manager (Atlético Nacional, Atlético Junior, Argentinos Juniors, Independiente, Boca Juniors, Rosario Central, Club América, Ferro Carril Oeste, Guadalajara, Barcelona, Santos Laguna, Independiente, Deportivo Toluca, Club León, Al-Ahli, Atlético Celaya, Puebla, Badajoz, Arsenal de Sarandí, Atlético San Luis).
  • Juan Cutillas (83), Spanish footballer (Atlético Madrid) and manager (Philippines, Taringa Rovers, Brisbane City, Pachanga Diliman, Kaya).
• July 9:
  • José Galli Neto (75), Brazilian footballer (Botafogo-SP, Ponte Preta, Corinthians, Portuguesa, Dom Bosco, XV de Jaú, Noroeste, Goianiense) and manager (Noroeste, XV de Jaú, Botafogo-SP, Ituano, Ponte Preta, Portuguesa, XV de Piracicaba, Joinville, Juventus-SP, Vila Nova, Ferroviária, Sãocarlense, Francana, Marília, Goianiense, São José, Fortaleza, Flamengo-SP, Nacional-AM, Caxias, Caldense, Avaí, Comercial-SP, Gama, Taquaritinga, Batatais, Sertãozinho, Marcílio Dias, Olímpia).
• July 10:
  • Osvaldo Aquino (73), Paraguayan footballer (San Lorenzo, Guaraní, Olimpia, Cerro Corá, Paraguay).^{[n 1]}
  • Francesco Bellini (77), Italian-born Canadian research scientist, administrator, businessman, and club president (Ascoli Picchio F.C. 1898).
  • Stepan Yurchyshyn (67), Soviet and Ukrainian footballer (SKA Lviv, CSKA Moscow, Karpaty Lviv, Dynamo Kyiv, SKA Karpaty Lviv, Pakhtakor Tashkent, Torpedo Lutsk, Podillya Khmelnytskyi, Hazovyk Komarno, Sokil-LORTA Lviv, Soviet Union), assistant manager (Karpaty Lviv), and manager (Karpaty Lviv, Hazovyk Komarno, FC Lviv (1992), Karpaty-2 Lviv, FC Lviv (2006)).
• July 11:
  • Erick Corrales (40), Costa Rican footballer (Deportivo Saprissa, Cartaginés, Barrio México, Nejapa, Belén Siglo XXI, Municipal Grecia).
  • Billy Wilson (88), Northern Irish footballer (Portadown, Burnley, Linfield, Ballymena United).
• July 13:
  • Flávio (54), Brazilian footballer (CSA, Athletico Paranaense, Vasco da Gama, Paraná, América Mineiro).
  • Rostislav Prokop (58), Czechoslovak and Slovakian footballer (DAC Dunajská Streda, Petra Drnovice, Athinaikos).
• July 14:
  • Armando Medina (92), Spanish footballer (Sporting Gijón).
• July 15:
  • Wagner Basílio (65), Brazilian footballer (Corinthians, São Paulo, Coritiba, Sport Recife, Bahia).
  • Raymond Stieber (89), French footballer (Strasbourg).
• July 16:
  • Ahmed Faras (76), Moroccan footballer (Chabab Mohammédia, Morocco).
• July 17:
  • Wyn Davies (83), Welsh footballer (Caernarfon Town, Wrexham, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Manchester City, Manchester United, Blackpool, Crystal Palace, Stockport County, Crewe Alexandra, Bangor City, Cape Town City, Wales).
  • Giuseppe Spalazzi (82), Italian footballer (Piacenza, Bologna, Bari, Genoa).
  • Ramiro (92), Brazilian footballer (Jabaquara, Fluminense, Santos, Atlético Madrid, Brazil) and manager (Santos).
• July 18:
  • Roberto Zywica (78), Argentine footballer (River Plate, Gimnasia (LP), Stade de Reims, Troyes AF, Toulouse, GCFO Ajaccio, All Boys, Nueva Chicago, Banfield, Atlanta, Argentina) and manager (Belgrano, Tristán Suárez).
• July 19:
  • Dmitri Alekseyev (52), Soviet-born Russian footballer (Prometei-Dynamo St. Petersburg, Zhemchuzhina-Sochi, Khimik Belorechensk, Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod, Torpedo Arzamas, Uralan Elista, Shinnik Yaroslavl, Rubin Kazan, Krasnoznamensk, Luch-Energiya Vladivostok, Dynamo Bryansk, Zvezda Serpukhov, SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk, Metallurg Lipetsk).
  • Sergio Campana (90), Italian footballer (Lanerossi Vicenza, Bologna) and lawyer. Former president of the Italian Footballers' Association (1968–2011).
  • José Magliolo (82), Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, Gimnasia (LP), Quilmes, Talleres (RE)).
• July 20:
  • Ferdinando Bozzi (68), Italian footballer (Benevento, Sambenedettese, Cesena, Francavilla, Sanremese, Giulianova, Pinerolo)
  • José Maria Marin (93), Brazilian footballer (São Paulo), politician and sports administrator. Formerly the governor of São Paulo (1982–1983) and president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (2012–2015).
  • Sasho Pargov (79), Bulgarian footballer (Marek Dupnitsa).
• July 21:
  • Cedric Badjeck (30), Cameroonian-Dutch footballer (Utrecht, Excelsior, De Treffers, DFS, Prespa Birlik).
  • Crescencio Gutiérrez (91), Mexican footballer (Guadalajara, Atlético Morelia, Atlas, Mexico).
  • Klaus Link (77), German footballer (VfB Lübeck, Rot-Weiss Essen, Röchling Völklingen, Waldhof Mannheim).
• July 22:
  • John Fallon (84), Scottish footballer (Celtic, Motherwell).
  • Muhamed Glavović (81), Yugoslav and Bosnian footballer (Velež Mostar, Sloboda Užice, Radnički Niš).
  • Joey Jones (70), Welsh footballer (Wrexham, Liverpool, Chelsea, Huddersfield Town, Wales) and caretaker manager (Wrexham).
  • Celeste Pin (64), Italian footballer (Perugia, Fiorentina, Hellas Verona, [Robur Siena|Siena]]).
• July 23:
  • Ahmed Jan (73), Pakistani footballer and referee (Pakistan Football Federation, FIFA).
  • Caius Lungu (36), Romanian footballer (Fortuna Covaci, Voința Sibiu, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Ripensia Timișoara, CSM Reșița).
  • Brian Owen (80), English footballer (Watford, Colchester United, Wolverhampton Wanderers).
  • Andreas Zafiropoulos (91), Greek businessman and club president (AEK Athens).
• July 24:
  • Julio César Cortés (84), Uruguayan footballer (Fénix, Peñarol, Sud América, Cerro, Rosario Central, Atlante, Pumas UNAM, Municipal, Los Angeles Aztecs, Alianza, Guanacasteca, Uruguay) and manager (Suchitepéquez, Juventud Retalteca, Guatemala, Comunicaciones, Deportivo Saprissa, Cobán Imperial, Xelajú, Turrialba, Aurora, Águila, Jalapa, San Carlos).
• July 25:
  • Herbert Pankau (83), East German footballer (Empor/Hansa Rostock, East Germany). Bronze medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
• July 26:
  • Martin Bakes (88), English footballer (Bradford City, Scunthorpe United).
  • Willie Irvine (82), Northern Irish footballer (Burnley, Preston North End, Brighton & Hove Albion, Halifax Town, Northern Ireland).
  • Dick Schneider (77), Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles, Feyenoord, Vitesse, Wageningen, Netherlands).
  • Jean Marie Sylla (42), Guinean footballer (Horoya Conakry, Ergotelis, Athens Kallithea, OFI, Apollon Kalamarias, PAS Giannina, Kalamata, Villemomble Sports, ES Viry-Châtillon).
• July 27:
  • Mikhail Afonin (68), Soviet-born Russian assistant manager (Krasnodar-2000, Kuban Krasnodar, Amur Blagoveshchensk, Chernomorets Novorossiysk, Dynamo Moscow) and manager (Krasnodar-2000, Nizhny Novgorod).
  • Mick Kearin (82), Irish footballer (Bohemian, Shamrock Rovers, Boston Rovers, Athlone Town, League of Ireland XI, Republic of Ireland).
  • Christian Winiger (80), Swiss footballer (FC Zürich, Winterthur, Young Boys, Grasshoppers, St. Gallen, Switzerland).
• July 28:
  • Sean Sheehy (73), Irish footballer (Dundalk, Preston North End, Huddersfield Town, Norwich City, Dundee United, Bohemians, Shelbourne, Finn Harps) and player-manager (Thurles Town).
• July 29:
  • André Ladner (63), Swiss footballer (Grasshoppers, Basel, Lugano, Switzerland), assistant manager (FC Zürich, Aarau), and manager (United Zürich, FC Zürich Frauen).
  • Mark Lazarus (86), English footballer (Leyton Orient, Queens Park Rangers, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Brentford, Crystal Palace, Folkestone, Ilford). Uncle of former English footballer Bobby Fisher.
  • João Leal Neto (87), Brazilian footballer (Santos, Fluminense, Jabaquara, América-SP, Guarani, Noroeste, São Paulo, Botafogo-SP, Ponte Preta), assistant manager (Guarani, São Paulo, Brazil, Santos), and manager (Noroeste, América-SP, Ponte Preta, Gama, Ittihad Kalba).
  • Süreyya Özkefe (86), Turkish footballer (Ankara Demirspor, Beşiktaş, Eskişehirspor, Kardemir Karabükspor, Turkey) and manager (Eskişehirspor).
  • Francisco Solabarrieta (84), Spanish footballer (Eibar, Sporting Gijón, Osasuna).
• July 30:
  • Alan Finney (91), English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers, Alfreton Town, England B).
• July 31:
  • Peter Kaack (84), German footballer (VfR Neumünster, Eintracht Braunschweig).
  • Franz-Josef Nacken (85), German footballer (Viktoria Alsdorf, Alemannia Aachen).

• August 1:
  • Dariush Mostafavi (80), Iranian footballer (Tehranjavan, Taj, Persepolis, Iran) and former president of the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (1994–1997).
  • José Paes (79), Brazilian-born Ecuadorian footballer (Portuguesa, Barcelona, 9 de Octubre, Ecuador).
• August 2:
  • Mohamed Abou el Naga (31), Egyptian footballer (Ismaily, Petrojet, Wadi Degla, Egypt).
• August 3:
  • Federico Caputi (75), Italitan footballer (Latina, Monza, Lucchese, Taranto, Atalanta, Catania, Pescara) and manager (L'Aquila).
  • Sylvain Hanquez (67), French footballer (Abbeville).
  • Dieter Thun (86), German footballer (VfV Hildesheim, Werder Bremen, VfL Wolfsburg).
• August 5:
  • Jorge Costa (53), Portuguese footballer (Porto, Penafiel, Marítimo, Charlton Athletic, Standard Liège, Portugal), assistant manager (Braga), and manger (Braga, Olhanense, Académica de Coimbra, CFR Cluj, AEL Limassol, Anorthosis Famagusta, Paços de Ferreira, Gabon, CS Sfaxien, Arouca, Tours, Mumbai City, Gaz Metan Mediaș, Farense, Académico de Viseu, AVS).
  • Ove Kindvall (82), Swedish footballer (IFK Norrköping, Feyenoord, IFK Göteborg, Sweden) and chairman (IFK Göteborg). Brother of Swedish radio host Kaj Kindvall, and father of Swedish footballers Niclas Kindvall and Tina Kindvall.
  • Parviz Koozehkanani (96), Iranian footballer (Taj, 1. FC Köln, Bayer Leverkusen, Iran).
  • Enrico Lanzi (72), Italian footballer (AC Milan, Cesena, Varese, Perugia, Monza, Campobasso, Paganese) and manager (Vogherese, Pavia).
  • Frank Mill (67), German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Borussia Dortmund, Fortuna Düsseldorf, West Germany).
  • Shidrak Yousif (83), Iraqi footballer (Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha, Al-Jaish, Iraq).
• August 6:
  • Volodymyr Bilotserkovets (25), Ukrainian footballer (Zorya Luhansk, Inhulets Petrove, Metalurh Zaporizhzhia).
  • Suleiman Obeid (41), Palestinian footballer (Khadamat Al-Shatea, Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari, Palestine).
• August 8:
  • Terry Hennessey (82), Welsh footballer (Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Tamworth, Wales), assistant manager (Tulsa Roughnecks), and manager (Tamworth, Tulsa Roughnecks, Shepshed Charterhouse, Melbourne Croatia, Heidelberg-Kirchheim). Cousin of Welsh international footballer Wayne Hennessey.
  • Julián Riera (84), Spanish footballer (Espanyol, Terrassa, Sabadell, Sant Andreu, Mataró).
  • Leo Windtner (74), Austrian businessman and president of the Austrian Football Association (2009–2021).
• August 9:
  • Mun Ki-nam (77), North Korean footballer (Rodongja, Unpasan, North Korea), assistant manager (Korea U20), and manager (Unpasan, North Korea U20, North Korea women's, North Korea, University of Ulsan, Ulsan College women's).
  • Bunny Larkin (89), English footballer (Birmingham City, Norwich City, Doncaster Rovers, Watford, Lincoln City, Wisbech Town, Nuneaton Borough, King's Lynn, Stevenage Athletic).
  • Theodoros Pallas (75), Greek footballer (Aris, Olympiacos, Greece).
• August 10:
  • Liberato Esposito (79), Italian referee (Italian Football Federation).
  • Kunishige Kamamoto (81), Japanese footballer (Yanmar Diesel, Japan) and manager (Yanmar Diesel, Gamba Osaka, Fujieda MYFC).
• August 11:
  • Sid Ali Lazazi (67), Algerian footballer (NA Hussein Dey, Algeria).
  • Benő Káposzta (83), Hungarian footballer (Újpesti Dózsa, Hungary).
  • Mustapha Tahiri (72), Moroccan footballer (MC Oujda, US Sidi Kacem, RS Berkane, USM d'Oujda, Morocco).
• August 12:
  • Richard Carr (87), British businessman and football director (Arsenal). Grandson of British businessman and politician Bracewell Smith, son of English cricketer Harry Carr, brother of former Arsenal vice-president Clive Carr, and father of English jurist and life peer Sue Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill.
  • Rikki Fleming (78), Scottish footballer (Ayr United, Hibernian, Berwick Rangers, Scottish Football League XI).
• August 13:
  • Aleksey Bessonov (63), Soviet and Russian footballer (Mordovia Saransk, Torpedo Armavir) and manager (Mordovia Saransk).
  • Franco Cresci (79), Italian footballer (Varese, Bologna, Modena) and manager (Modena, Mirandolese, Carpi, Forlì, Vis Pesaro, Imolese, Rovigo).
  • Kevin Dawtry (67), English footballer (Southampton, Crystal Palace, Bournemouth, Reading, Road-Sea Southampton, Salisbury City, Fareham Town, Gosport Borough, Blackfield & Langley).
  • Francisco Franco (80), Paraguayan footballer (Silvio Pettirossi, Club Libertad, Deportivo Guabirá, Oriente Petrolero).
  • Joop Niezen (89), Dutch footballer (Quick, ADO, AGOVV, DHC), sports journalist, and radio presenter.
• August 14:
  • Auro Enzo Basiliani (90), Italian footballer (Spezia, Hellas Verona, Lucchese).
  • Josef Frydrych (78), Czechoslovak footballer (Jablonec, Slavia Prague, Příbram, Dynamo České Budějovice).
  • Sammy Johnston (58), Scottish footballer (St Johnstone, Ayr United, Partick Thistle, Ballymena United, Stranraer, Glenavon, Finn Harps, Coleraine, Pollok) and manager (Neilston Juniors). Brother of former Scottish international footballer Allan Johnston and uncle of Scottish international footballer Max Johnston.
  • Eddy Kaspard (24), Tahitian footballer (Trélissac, Tefana, Vénus, Tahiti).
  • Gideon Kleinman (70), Israeli footballer (Maccabi Netanya, Maccabi Hadera).
• August 16:
  • Fernando Cruz (85), Portuguese footballer (Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, Portugal).
  • Dan Tana (90), Yugoslav and American footballer (Red Star Belgrade, Hannover 96, Montreal Hakoah FC), actor, restaurateur, and football administrator (Los Angeles Toros, Brentford, Football Association of Yugoslavia, Red Star Belgrade).
  • Richard Tylinski (87), French footballer (Saint-Étienne, Avignon, France) and manager (SC Draguignan).
• August 17:
  • Hans-Bert Matoul (80), East German footballer (Chemie Leipzig, Motor Dessau, Lokomotive Leipzig, East Germany) and manager.
• August 18:
  • Issaâd Dhomar (92), Algerian footballer (SCU El Biar, JS El Biar, Algeria), player-manager (JS El Biar), and president of the Algerian Football Federation (1984–1986).
  • Juan Padrón Morales (89), Spanish footballer (Tenerife), and former president of the Canarian Football Federation, vice-president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and official at UEFA and FIFA.
  • Tendai Ndoro (40), Zimbabwean footballer (Nico United, Chicken Inn, Mpumalanga Black Aces, Orlando Pirates, Al-Faisaly, Ajax Cape Town, Highlands Park, Al-Orouba, Zimbabwe).
• August 19:
  • Paolo Bernasconi (87), Italian footballer (Fanfulla, Lazio, Parma, Triestina, Arezzo, Ternana, Nardò, Pavia).
  • Martin Laamers (58), Dutch footballer (Wageningen, Vitesse, KRC Harelbeke, Gent, Netherlands).
  • Razak Omotoyossi (39), Nigerian-born Beninese footballer (Avrankou Omnisport, JS Pobè, Sheriff Tiraspol, Helsingborgs, Al-Nassr, Metz, GAIS, Syrianska, Zamalek, Kahramanmaraşspor, KAC Kénitra, Olympic Safi, Al-Nahda, Hearts of Oak, USS Kraké, JA Cotonou, Benin).
  • Johan Vermeersch (73), Belgian footballer (Daring Club de Bruxelles, R.W.D. Molenbeek, KV Kortrijk, Gent) aand manager (R.W.D. Molenbeek, Racing Jet Wavre).
• August 21:
  • Rod Petrie (69), Scottish football executive. Chairman of Hibernian (2004–2019) and president of the Scottish Football Association (2019–2023).
• August 23:
  • Sidio Corradi (80), Italian footballer (Bologna, Vicenza, Cesena, Varese, Genoa, Casale) and manager (Genoa Primavera).
  • Gerry Harrison (89), English football commentator (ITV).
  • Yoshiharu Horii (72), Japanese footballer (Yanmar Diesel), coach (Yanmar Diesel/Cerezo Osaka, Gamba Osaka) and manager (Kawasaki Frontale).
  • André Oostrom (72), Dutch footballer (FC Utrecht, VVV-Venlo, Edmonton Drillers, Toronto Nationals, Go Ahead Eagles) and indoor soccer player (Edmonton Drillers).
• August 24:
  • Helmut Hergesell (82), East German footballer (Einheit Greifswald, Empor Rostock/Hansa Rostock) and manager (Hansa Rostock).
  • Knut Iversen (86), Norwegian footballer (SK Gjøvik-Lyn).
  • Marcos Olmedo (26), Ecuadorian footballer (Aucas, América de Quito, Macará, Quito, El Nacional, Mushuc Runa).
  • Theo Vonk (77), Dutch footballer (AZ '67, FC Volendam), assistant manager (AZ '67), and manager (Sparta Rotterdam, Twente, Real Burgos, Groningen, AZ, Roda JC, Heracles, Eintracht Nordhorn, Enschede, Glacis United). Father of Dutch footballer Michel Vonk.
• August 25:
  • Ron Harbertson (95), English footballer (North Shields, Newcastle United, Bradford City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Grimsby Town, Ashington, Darlington, Lincoln City, Wrexham, Grantham Town).
  • Paul Johnson (69), English footballer (Stoke City, Southern California Lazers, Chester, Altrincham).^{[n 1]}
• August 27:
  • Abdellah Liegeon (67), Algerian footballer (Besançon, AS Monaco, Strasbourg, Algeria).
  • Oleg Skorkin (64), Soviet and Russian footballer (SKA-Khabarovsk, Luch Vladivostok).
• August 28:
  • Daniel Ariciu (74), Romanian footballer (Argeș Pitești, Minaur Baia Mare).
  • Ollie Horgan (58), Irish assistant manager (Galway United) and manager (Fanad United, Finn Harps).
  • Oscar Zijlstra (73), Dutch footballer (Cambuur).
• August 29:
  • Steve Thompson (70), English footballer (Worksop Town, Boston United, Lincoln City, Charlton Athletic, Leicester City, Sheffield United) and manager (Lincoln City, Southend United, Sheffield United, Cambridge United, Notts County).
• August 30:
  • Bud Brocken (67), Dutch footballer (Willem II, Birmingham City, Groningen, BVV Den Bosch, Netherlands).
  • Barrie Thomas (88), English footballer (Leicester City, Mansfield Town, Scunthorpe United, Newcastle United, Barnsley).
• August 31:
  • Johnny Vilstrup (58), Danish footballer (Fremad Valby, Fremad Amager, Lyngby, Luton Town, AGF).